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DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872.
8vo. 50 illustrations by John Tenniel. (139-144 pp. remargined). Original gilt decorated green cloth, brown coated endpapers (spine a bit darkened with some wear at ends, rear top fore-corner and edge bumped, some small stains, rear joint cracked). Provenance: From the Lewis Carroll Collection of Philip Conklin Blackburn (booklabel), a noted Carroll bibliophile and scholar.
FIRST EDITION printed in America, FIRST STATE of p. 21, with the misprint “wade” for “wabe” in the second line of the poem “Jabberwocky”. Lovett 19.